New Install

[thekat]

Edit:
Apparently, the 2850 does not support virtulization,
per this thread
http://en.community.dell.com/support.../19574591.aspx

maybe this thread will help others to check that the server supports kvm before posting..

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I ran across Proxmox when working on KVM.

I am doing an initial install
- Dell PowerEdge 2850
- RAM 8 GiG
- 2 Xeon 2.8 Ghz
- 3 73Gig SCSI (RAID 5)
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/pve-root 34G 973M 31G 3% /
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 3.9G 208K 3.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 3.9G 19M 3.9G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/pve-data 81G 7.3G 74G 9% /var/lib/vz
/dev/sda1 495M 56M 415M 12% /boot
/dev/fuse 30M 12K 30M 1% /etc/pve

Proxmox
Linux kvm 2.6.32-12-pve #1 SMP Tue May 15 06:02:20 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Guests Attempted
- Centos 6.2 32-bit
- SL 6.2 32-bit

Both will boot until this:


The CPU Utilization spikes to 126% of 1 CPU, then the VM stops

Here is the Centos conf file

bootdisk: virtio0
cores: 1
ide2: local:iso/CentOS-6.2-i386-bin-DVD1.iso,media=cdrom
kvm: 0
memory: 1024
name: centos
net0: virtio=4A:E1:53:23:7D:BE,bridge=vmbr0
ostype: l26
sockets: 1
virtio0: local:100/vm-100-disk-1.raw

SL conf file

bootdisk: virtio0
cores: 1
cpu: qemu32
ide2: local:iso/SL-62-i386-2012-02-06-Install-DVD.iso,media=cdrom
kvm: 0
memory: 2048
name: sl
net0: virtio=6E:64:95:29:36:A1,bridge=vmbr0
ostype: l26
sockets: 1
virtio0: local:101/vm-101-disk-1.qcow2

I have been reading the forums but have not come across this.

Thx
tk

 

[tom]

use another cpu type for your kvm guest.

you can also try latest KVM and Kernel from pvetest repository.

 

[thekat]

use another cpu type for your kvm guest.

you can also try latest KVM and Kernel from pvetest repository.

Tom,
Thank you for your quick reply

I have tried the following
cpu: qemu32 - same error
cpu: qemu64 - same error
cpu: kvm32 - same error
cpu: kvm64 - same error
cpu: host - vm would not even start

Any suggestions ?
or perhaps the link to the pvetest repository ?

Thx
tk

 

[tom]

as I wrote, try pvetest packages.

 

[thekat]

found it
# PVE test packages provided by proxmox.com deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian squeeze pvetest

 

[thekat]

Ok.. I guess this machine is too old since it has Xeon Processors, no luck..

Have tried almost every processor in the list after upgrading to pvetest .

ve-manager: 2.1-9 (pve-manager/2.1/2aae436c)
running kernel: 2.6.32-13-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 2.1-69
pve-kernel-2.6.32-11-pve: 2.6.32-66
pve-kernel-2.6.32-13-pve: 2.6.32-69
lvm2: 2.02.95-1pve2
clvm: 2.02.95-1pve2
corosync-pve: 1.4.3-1
openais-pve: 1.1.4-2
libqb: 0.10.1-2
redhat-cluster-pve: 3.1.8-3
resource-agents-pve: 3.9.2-3
fence-agents-pve: 3.1.7-2
pve-cluster: 1.0-27
qemu-server: 2.0-42
pve-firmware: 1.0-17
libpve-common-perl: 1.0-28
libpve-access-control: 1.0-24
libpve-storage-perl: 2.0-20
vncterm: 1.0-2
vzctl: 3.0.30-2pve5
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.0.12-3
pve-qemu-kvm: 1.1-3
ksm-control-daemon: 1.1-1

 

[thekat]

Apparently, the 2850 does not support virtulization,
per this thread
http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/servers/f/956/p/19300637/19574591.aspx

Tom, thanks for the info, I will use it when I get another box.

tk